février
2011
Before any advanced action, you first need to connect Visual Studio to a Team Foundation Server. So go to the Team menu and select Connect to Team Foundation Server as indicated in Figure 1.
A first window opens up asking you to select a Team Foundation Server (Figure 2). If no server was configured before, then you will have to configure one by clicking the Servers button in the top right corner of the window. Otherwise you just have to choose the server from the list and check the collection and projects you want to connect to.
A second window opens up listing all configured Team Foundation Servers with their names and addresses (Figure 3). To configure a new server, click the Add button in the top right corner of the window.
Here comes the configuration window that will allow you to find your Team Foundation Server. As you can see in Figure 4, different parameters are available to find it. You can either enter the full URL or specify all parameters separately, that is the name, path, port number and protocol. When you are done, click the OK button. If the server cannot be found, then an error message will be displayed.
You now see that the newly configured server mapping has been added to the list of the previous window (Figure 5). Select it if it is not done yet and click the Close button.
You are now one step away from the end of the process. The server you have just configured now appears in the list. Once you select it, you will see the list of all Team Project Collections present on the server along with all their associated Team Projects (Figure 6). All you have to do is to select the collection you want to work on and, if you want to work with existing projects, you might want to select them too. When you are ready, click the Connect button. Congratulations! Your Visual Studio is now connected to a Team Foundation Server.